“Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.” WellsHomeCompanyHappeningsLondonHallsPeterRoyalEnsemble Author:Trevor Nunn
“The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.” ThinkingWayFirstsWellsMayLongBookStoriesReadingLiteratureNamesLanguageHoursNumbersCompanyNovelWrittenWorstEventsComplexesInternationalDetailsLondonNarrativeCodeProseDescriptionDefiniteLong WaySan FranciscoDescribingCurriculumStylistJournalisticRenownedDa Vinci Code Author:Geoffrey K. Pullum
“The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.” FirstsPlayAmericaCompanyFiveTwentiesLondonAdaptedTwenty FiveDublin Book:Seven short plays Source: Seven short plays
“Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.” ThinkingYearsTodayNextInterestCompanyPercentRateLondonInvestorsDevotedBorrowedPilgrimInterest RateRepaying Author:L. M. Boyd
“Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.” PeopleThinkingYearsFilmSleepPoorRoomsCompanyCarMy FriendsProductionsEightLondonHotelFestivalsHotel RoomsFilm FestivalsCannesCannes Film Festival Author:Jeremy Irvine